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  • 标题:Effects of a Thermal Inversion Experiment on STEM Students Learning and Application of Damped Harmonic Motion
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  • 作者:Omar Israel González-Peña ; Gustavo Morán-Soto ; Rodolfo Rodríguez-Masegosa
  • 期刊名称:Sustainability
  • 印刷版ISSN:2071-1050
  • 出版年度:2021
  • 卷号:13
  • 期号:2
  • 页码:919
  • DOI:10.3390/su13020919
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:MDPI, Open Access Journal
  • 摘要:There are diverse teaching methodologies to promote both collaborative and individual work in undergraduate physics courses. However, few educational studies seek to understand how students learn and apply new knowledge through open-ended activities that require mathematical modeling and experimentation focused on environmental problems. Here, we propose a novel home experiment to simulate the dynamics of a flue gas under temperature inversion and model it as damped harmonic motion. After designing and conducting the experiment, twenty six first year students enrolled in STEM majors answered six qualitative questions to inform us about their epistemological beliefs regarding their learning process. Their answers imply that this type of open-ended experiments may facilitate students’ understanding of physical phenomena and point to the significance of physics instructors as promoters of epistemological development. In general, students described this activity as a positive experience that helped them connect an environmental phenomenon with a fundamental physics concept.
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